He thought "snogging" meant something more that just "kissing". I thought it meant kissing and did not imply sex.
I thought "snogging" meant "making out" or "sucking face" i.e. a little more than just kissing.
But really, I have no idea.
I know, world in peril and we have to work together. This is my last office romance, I'll tell you that.
Buffy ,'End of Days'
We're Literary 2: To Read Makes Our Speaking English Good
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
tommyrot - Aug 01, 2005 5:39:25 am PDT #8821 of 10002
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Volans - Aug 01, 2005 5:43:49 am PDT #8822 of 10002
move out and draw fire
how taken aback we were when 11 year old Ron said "That's bloody brilliant"
My DH did a head-jerk at this too. I know "bloody" is a pretty hardcore curse word, but I don't know it, if you take my meaning. Curse words really lose their oomph when culture-shifted.
"Snogging" is kind of an unpleasant word...sounds onomaetopoetic.
billytea - Aug 01, 2005 5:45:20 am PDT #8823 of 10002
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
The terms 'bloody' and 'bugger' are nearly as hard as the term 'fuck' (not quite the same magnitude, but a damn sight closer to that than, 'damn it'), so you can imagine how taken aback we were when 11 year old Ron said "That's bloody brilliant" to his new teacher in the first movie. He'd have been STRAIGHT in detention if he said that to me.
Surely not. Here in Oz we had a commercial on at prime time that featured every member of the family, including the dog, taking turns at saying 'bugger'. Hell, I have a hat with 'BUGGER' written on it in large gold capital letters.
Jim - Aug 01, 2005 5:47:43 am PDT #8824 of 10002
Ficht nicht mit Der Raketemensch!
I think you should add the caveat "for kids". Bloody and bugger are about as rude as Shit, I'd say.
Fred Pete - Aug 01, 2005 5:49:48 am PDT #8825 of 10002
Ann, that's a ferret.
Snogging means proper kissing - not a peck on the cheek. Kissing with tongues.
Ah. More "necking" than "kissing."
Trudy Booth - Aug 01, 2005 5:49:57 am PDT #8826 of 10002
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
I've always thought "snogging" sounded dirtier than "shagging".
Connie Neil - Aug 01, 2005 5:54:27 am PDT #8827 of 10002
brillig
I say bugger and bloody all the time, and folks just think I'm quaint. Then I had a boss who'd grown up in England, and she just about had a heart attack when I let off a riff of "bloody, buggering heck." (You have to say 'Heck' in Utah, otherwise the earth will open and we'll fall straight into the Pit. And, no, I'm not sacrificing myself for that good cause.)
billytea - Aug 01, 2005 5:56:19 am PDT #8828 of 10002
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
I say bugger and bloody all the time, and folks just think I'm quaint. Then I had a boss who'd grown up in England, and she just about had a heart attack when I let off a riff of "bloody, buggering heck."
Hee. Interestingly, the only people who've ever given me grief about saying 'bugger' were Mormons. Naturally, I mocked them for it.
beekaytee - Aug 01, 2005 5:56:45 am PDT #8829 of 10002
Compassionately intolerant
Huh. I thought 'bloody' was akin to 'very'. I've heard so many versions of 'bloody marvelous', 'bloody good', etc.
I'm listening to the final cd of HP6...for the manyeth time. I'm still pathetic with the but...but...it says that Hagrid carried something in his arms at the funeral that "Harry knew to be Dumbledore's body." It doesn't say Hagrid carried Dumbledore's body! dammit.
Ah well, my grief will cycle to resolution soon I suppose.
erikaj - Aug 01, 2005 5:59:18 am PDT #8830 of 10002
Always Anti-fascist!
(Wishing I'd been born somewhere without school spirit...even without the sexy accents. Or at least that I might have done the voice so people might have stopped breaking my ovaries over lack of same."We don't do that where I come from.")